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Andrew Cheng 鄭安誠 @linguistandrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Deaf history is part of Hawaiʻi's history! UHM is meeting the moment: "Enrollment [in ASL courses] has grown by 1,400% in six years, from 19 students in spring 2019 to 265 in fall 2025," and students can now major in Linguistics with a specialization in American Sign Language!

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Deaf History Museum opens at UH Mānoa’s Hamilton Library | University of Hawaiʻi System News

The exhibit features artifacts, stories and contributions from Hawaiʻi’s Deaf and hard-of-hearing community.

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Andrew Cheng 鄭安誠 @linguistandrew.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

NYT reports a sharp decline in PhD admissions since last year. I see it happening in my department. Funding is down, but job uncertainty is a major driver, too. There's no longer a guaranteed job in academia after grad school; why would students risk debt and years of low pay for no clear benefit?

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Decline of Ph.D. Admissions Could Imperil a ‘Generation of New Talent’

Some of the nation’s top research universities are shrinking doctoral programs because of uncertain federal funding.

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Andrew Cheng 鄭安誠 @linguistandrew.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Help Bring an ASL Interpreter Program to Hawaiʻi! Hawaiʻi is currently facing a severe shortage of #AmericanSignLanguage (ASL) interpreters, and we are one of only eight states without an interpreter training program. Right now, the legislature is in the final stages of considering a measure...

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Reinaldo Cabrera Pérez @reycabreraperez.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

First paper of 2026 in the Cognition Journal! 🥳 Led by @savithry.bsky.social, @ethankutlu.bsky.social, and co-authored with many wonderful collaborators from the ROLE Collective (www.rolecollective.org). Honored to work alongside scholars who enrich my learning and make me feel I belong.🤩🙌

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Andrew Cheng 鄭安誠 @linguistandrew.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The ROLE Collective Symposium has had its abstract deadline extended to January 30th! This year's symposium will take place April 9-10, held jointly online and in-person at UNAM (Mexico). Keynote speaker is Dr. Elizabeth Martínez Buenabad. More info here: www.rolecollective.org/events/3rd-r...

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The ROLE Collective - 3rd ROLE Symposium

The third Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Symposium will be held on April 9-10, 2026.

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Andrew Cheng 鄭安誠 @linguistandrew.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Every linguistics student will learn in an intro class that multilingualism is more common in the world than monolingualism. For years I never had a proper citation for that claim, but I just read Blyth (1995) and found this! Yes, it's still logic rather than statistics, but it's something.

A quote from Blyth (1995) that cites Fraga et al. (1994) as an initial estimate of just how many multilingual people there are in the world.

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Andrew Cheng 鄭安誠 @linguistandrew.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This semester's phonetics students did from-scratch documentation projects on an awesome variety of languages, including: Ilocano, Klallam, Bengali, Thai, Samoan, Tongan, ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, Hakka, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Palauan, Nepali, Vietnamese, Kibembe, Kape, and Boricua Spanish.

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Andrew Cheng 鄭安誠 @linguistandrew.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Made it to Singapore for #NWAVAP8! Walking around Orchard Road yesterday made me think of none other than Labov's famous Department Store study... each mall in the neighborhood caters to different social classes of shoppers, and the languages seen and heard in them reflects this.

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Andrew Cheng 鄭安誠 @linguistandrew.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

If you've got a paywall, just check out the @aaup.org report itself here: data.aaup.org/fcs-ft-facul... I spent a good hour comparing schools, faculty ranks, affiliations, and regions, and then another hour thinking about if I'm going to be able to buy a house.

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Full-Time Faculty Avg. Salary, by Academic Rank | AAUP Data

The number of faculty and average projected salary expenditures for full-time faculty members on the payroll of institutions as of November 1 of each academic year.

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Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Andrew Cheng (@linguistandrew) studied long-time YouTubers who had moved — and found interesting things about how their accents changed. Plus, the method has interesting pros and cons. I really enjoyed this one! Check it out: APPLE PODCASTS: bit.ly/3RT1ahl SPOTIFY: bit.ly/4k96zgb

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Andrew Cheng 鄭安誠 @linguistandrew.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Every semester I brag about my students and the cool research projects they've completed! This time, my undergrads have learned and shared about: Gooniyandi, Yami, Chavacano, Swardspeak, Jejueo, Nahuatl, Mangarevan, Samoan, Tok Pisin, CHamoru, Hawaiʻi Creole English (Pidgin)...

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Andrew Cheng 鄭安誠 @linguistandrew.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Register for the 2nd annual ROLE Collective Symposium, to be held on May 19, 2025! It's 100% online and 100% free! ROLE's mission is to envision a new way of addressing language sans harmful "native speaker ideologies". More info here: www.rolecollective.org/events/2nd-r...

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The ROLE Collective - 2nd ROLE Symposium

The second Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Symposium will be held on May 19, 2025.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Please share with your networks that the 2nd ROLE Symposium will be held online on May 19th. More information is coming soon www.rolecollective.org/events/2nd-r... You can submit your abstracts by April 14th through this link docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Andrew Cheng 鄭安誠 @linguistandrew.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The question of whether the US should or should not have an official language is uninteresting. Of actual concern: the recent EO is directly linked to an anti-immigrant, anti-education "English-only" movement which will add to the stigmatization of other languages and the people who speak them.

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Andrew Cheng 鄭安誠 @linguistandrew.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Congrats to Adrien Brody for winning Best Actor tonight! Clearly the use of AI ended up being a nothingburger. I'll make sure to set aside a few days to watch The Brutalist soon :)

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Andrew Cheng 鄭安誠 @linguistandrew.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Almost time for the #Oscars! Had so much fun talking language and movies with @grammargirl.bsky.social on her show this week. This is just a short clip from the full episode, coming out soon! #linguisticrealism #dune #conlang

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Gorilla Experiment Builder @gorillapsych.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Andrew Cheng – Linguistics & Accent Perception @linguistandrew.bsky.social studies voice and accent perceptions in Honolulu’s linguistic landscape. He will examine whether varieties of English in Hawaiʻi are linked to ethnic and cultural backgrounds—and if this influences linguistic discrimination.

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Andrew Cheng 鄭安誠 @linguistandrew.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I've taught Labov's landmark studies in almost every single one of my courses, whether they are sociolinguistics courses or not. His legacy of contributions to linguistics and language studies is extraordinary. Rest in peace, #BillLabov.

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Andrew Cheng 鄭安誠 @linguistandrew.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

My Phonetics students never fail to impress me with their documentation projects. This year's languages: German, Hatoma Ryukyuan, Palauan, Ilocano, Tochigi-ben Japanese, Bitterroot Salish, Hawaiian Sign Language...

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